They're NOT messing with a word that's been defined for clearly a long time. I don't think they'd define the pleas for equality before the law to be considered "messing" or "trouble making".

You DO realize that the definition of marriage has changed several times, right? Women are no longer property owned by their fathers until transferred into the possession of another Man. Being of different race no longer means you can't get married, either.

Furthermore, we re-define words all the time in the computer field. Think about how the definition of "fast" gets redefined every 18 months to to years. And how what was "fast" is now "slow".

Hands down you cannot string a rational argument against gay marriage because there isn't one. Its based on cultural fears, and intolerance. You're on the losing side of history, next to the Mississippi state police that physically assaulted my father and his friends for helping black people register to vote in early 60s. Next to KKK. And the confederates, and so on. Have fun explaining to your children or your children's children, who will grow up with gay marriage, how you were the bigot.

"Think about how the definition of "fast" gets redefined every 18 months to to years. And how what was "fast" is now "slow"."

What?? Do you know what definition means? The definition of fast has never changed. Absolute values you might be measuring have.

Hopefully my children won't grow up with gay "marriage", they'll grow up with "marriage", and "gay marriage/union/whatever they want to call it". That's an important distinction.

How? How is that an important distinction? Do you honestly think your right to be with someone of the opposite sex is somehow better than someone's desire to be with someone of the same sex, and if so, on what rational grounds?

So would you also deny that other words have meanings that have evolved and or changed over the years?

You keep using the word "gay" -- are you not aware that that word has changed its meaning?

Crickets...

Defined how?

* A nun is married to God (in some religions)

* A priest is married to God (in some religions)

* A man can be married to more than one woman (in some religions)

* A woman can be married to more than one man (maybe in darkest Africa, who's to say?)

* A man can be married to a woman

* A man can be married to a tree (in India, true)

* A man can be married to a man

* A woman can be married to a woman

Why are you so sensitive about words, anyway?

Gay was defined for a long time to mean happy.

Conservative used to mean saving and preserving and conserving, instead of spending, destroying, and squandering.

Faithful used to mean good, just, and moral, instead of vituperative, devious, dim-witted, and delusional.

Words get redefined all the time. Get over it.